Rand is wrong. We used to have a video of that game here. I recently watched the game again. The crowd was warned, they got louder, and the refs just shrugged at elway. I'll post video as soon as I find it.

Rand is wrong. We used to have a video of that game here. I recently watched the game again. The crowd was warned, they got louder, and the refs just shrugged at elway. I'll post video as soon as I find it.

I can't find any other verification of the Chiefs/Broncos, but there is this.

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I want you to imagine the following scenario. The fans are noisy. The quarterback turns to the referee and says, "They can't hear me." The ref signals him to run his play. He takes a step back. "I won't run it until you quiet down the crowd."

The ref is getting madder and madder. Let's say he's an old timer who doesn't really favor this type of confrontation.

"Will ya run the damn play?" he says. "You're making me look bad."

"You've got a penalty for crowd noise, call it," the QB says. "I'll stand here all night." He's a feisty kind of guy. He puts his hands on his hips and walks away. Now the crowd is really getting into it. Let's say this is a Monday night game. In the booth, the ABC announcers are laughing.

There is an announcement over the P.A. to the effect that the crowd has to quiet down. The decibel volume goes up by about 200 percent. The defensive players on the field start signaling the fans to be quiet. They boo their home team players. There is another announcement, this time that their team will be penalized unless the fans pipe down. "Booooo! Screw you!"

Finally the ref drops the flag. Omigod, he really did it. Howls of anguish from the stands, as he walks off the five yards. There is another announcement about a further penalty, if needed. The howls subside to grumbles. The quarterback steps up and calls his play.

So what do you think of this scenario? Far fetched, huh? Guess what, it really happened. Bengals vs. Saints in the New Orleans Superdome on Monday night, August 28, 1989.

The hell I don't. It happened at a game that I was in attendance. Elway whined and we were warned. The crowd got louder. He whined again and the Chiefs were penalized. It got even louder. He whined some more and the refs told him to run a play.

No wonder Jamaal H. ****ing Charles' [JHFC™] uniform was so clean throughout the game, he got to do a head to toe scrub after every catch!!

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